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From Spotify Studios, this is Dissect, long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible

episodes.

I'm your host, Cole Kushner. Oh, Today we continue our serialized analysis of Flower Boy by Tyler the Creator. On our last episode, we

dissected the album's opening track forward. There we heard Tyler established

the majority of the themes and symbols that will be developed and explored over the

course of the album. Because these will be key in our understanding of

Flower Boy I'd like to take a few moments now to recap what we heard.

Thematically, Forward finds Tyler questioning his success, his motives, and his materialistic lifestyle

as he searches for something truly meaningful in his life.

This self-examination leads to an existential crisis, a fear of losing

everything, and a deep underlying loneliness he feels despite being surrounded by friends

and material goods. We heard how this loneliness and alienation

stems from not only a lack of meaning in his life, but also from both his position as a black male

in America, as well as his closeted sexuality.

Symbolically, Tyler presents two opposing large-scale structures, material objects and nature.

These help to center Flower Boy within a larger thematic framework.

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